Belleville News-Democrat (Jan. 5) – While a “mystery” canine respiratory illness has been at least anecdotally reported in Illinois, a new, specific canine respiratory virus has yet to be identified in the state or anywhere in the U.S.
“We don’t know that there’s a new virus that’s circulating, and that’s one of the big issues around the current concern about respiratory disease in dogs is that there are a number of dogs that have had respiratory diseases, some of them more severe, but whether or not this is a departure from normal is a lot harder to document, and to date there has not been any new virus that has been identified,” Dr. Marcella Ridgway, internal medicine specialist with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said in a Dec. 1 phone interview with the News-Democrat.
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